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Une zone à défendre
FrenchUne zone à défendre
Directed byRomain Cogitore
Written byRomain Cogitore
Produced by
  • Hugo Sélignac
  • Nicolas Dumont
Starring
CinematographyJulien Hirsch
Edited byFlorent Vassault
Music byMathieu Lamboley
Production
company
Chi-Fou-Mi Productions
Distributed byDisney+
Release date
  • 2023 (2023)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench


Une zone à défendre is an upcoming French romantic drama film written and directed by Romain Cogitore, starring François Civil and Lyna Khoudri. This is the first French original Disney+ film and is set to be released in France and worldwide in the streaming platform in 2023.[1][2]

Plot

Greg is an undercover police lieutenant who must collect information on eco-activists and infiltrates a movement that fights to save a forest from the building of a dam. There he meets Myriam, a zadist, and they fall in love on the Zone to Defend.

Cast

  • François Civil as Greg
  • Lyna Khoudri as Myriam
  • Félix Bossuet as Fissou
  • Nathalie Richard as Severine
  • Nico Rogner as Niko
  • Oona von Maydell as Jana
  • Mona Walravens as Lucia
  • Manon Bresch as Fred
  • Candice Bouchet as Bene
  • Bellamine Abdelmalek as Naël
  • Céline Carrère as Catherine
  • Giacomo Fadda as Tonio
  • Arnaud Churin as Hubert
  • Hadi Rassi as Zap

Production

Development

Director and screenwriter Romain Cogitore announced the project (then-titled Zad) in an interview for French newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace on 26 February 2016.[3] It was inspired by a real-life scandal that hit the European press in 2011 and revealed long-term police missions of eco-infiltrators, some of them even had children with activists before disappearing.[4][5][6]

On 11 July 2022, Disney+ announced the shooting of its first original French film, Une zone à défendre, directed by Romain Cogitore with François Civil and Lyna Khoudri in the lead roles.[1] The film is set to be released on Disney+ in France and worldwide in 2023.[1][2] Cogitore had previously directed Civil in the 2011 World War II drama Nos résistances.[7] Une zone à défendre is the third collaboration between Civil and Khoudri, who had worked together on the French dubbing of the animated film Lightyear in 2022, and also co-starred in the two-part saga The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady, both scheduled to be released in 2023.[8] Mathieu Lamboley composed the film's original score.[9]

Cogitore explained the film in a press release:

With 'A Zone to Defend', I want to place environmental and political issues within the framework of a love story, to place myself in a double cinematographic genre - the undercover film and melodrama - to recount a moment in our contemporary history, which zadists and collapsologists call "the collapse of the old world".[1]

Filming

Principal photography started on 13 June 2022 and wrapped on 12 August 2022.[10][11] Filming took place in Paris, Essonne, Marseille, Normandy and Melun.[10][12]

Marketing

Disney France unveiled on Twitter the first image from the film with François Civil and Lyna Khoudri on 12 November 2022.[13] On 29 January 2023, Disney France unveiled a new image of Civil on the set of the film to celebrate the actor's birthday.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "« UNE ZONE À DÉFENDRE », le premier film Original français Disney+". The Walt Disney Company France (in French). 11 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Keslassy, Elsa (13 July 2022). "Disney+ Teams With 'Stronghold' Producer for First French Film Original". Variety.
  3. ^ Vigneron, Philippe (26 February 2016). "Clément Cogitore vu par Romain". DNA - les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French).
  4. ^ "A Zone to Defend | TorinoFilmLab". TorinoFilmLab. 30 November 2016.
  5. ^ Tweedie, Neil (15 January 2011). "Eco infiltrator Mark Kennedy: The great betrayal". The Telegraph.
  6. ^ Evans, Rob; Lewis, Paul (20 January 2012). "Undercover police had children with activists". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Sanchez, Amandine (12 July 2022). "Disney+ annonce son premier film français avec deux stars montantes du cinéma". Télé-Loisirs (in French).
  8. ^ Orozco, Edouard (13 July 2022). "François Civil et Lyna Khoudri seront les stars du premier film original français de Disney Plus". Première (in French).
  9. ^ "Mathieu Lamboley to Score Romain Cogitore's 'Une zone à défendre'". Film Music Reporter. 28 December 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Une zone à défendre (aka ZAD) / A Zone to Defend (WT)". Crew United. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  11. ^ Corvisy, Aurélie (24 May 2022). "Essonne : Appel aux figurants pour le prochain film de Romain Cogitore tourné à Auvers-Saint-Georges". Le Républicain de l'Essonne (in French).
  12. ^ Lacaille, William (25 July 2022). "Seine-et-Marne. Participez à un casting pour jouer dans le prochain film avec François Civil". Actu.fr (in French).
  13. ^ Disney+FR (12 November 2022). "Découvrez une première image de Lyna Khoudri et François Civil sur le tournage du film original français, Une zone à défendre, bientôt en streaming sur #DisneyPlus". Twitter (in French).
  14. ^ Disney+FR (29 January 2023). "Contrairement à lui, ce n'est pas votre anniversaire, mais nous avons un cadeau pour vous : une nouvelle image de François Civil sur le tournage d'Une Zone à Défendre, bientôt en streaming sur #DisneyPlus". Twitter (in French).
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